150 ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BOTANY OF [Balsaminea. 
as G. heterotrichon Sm. pedunculatum, and levigatum, nob., the last nearly allied to G. luci- 
dum of English botany. Mr. Don describes G. eriostemon of Fischer, found in Dahuria, as 
occurring among Dr.Wallich’s specimens from Gossainthan. On loftier mountains, as 
Choor and Urukta, G. Lindleyanum and Choorense are found, with a pale variety of 
G. Nepalense, which has also been brought me from Cashmere, with a hairy variety of 
G. Wallichianum. G. Grevilleanum, Wall. Pl. As. Rar. T. 209, found on Gossainthan, 
appears to be the same as a species found by Mr. Inglis on the Kherung Pass. A species 
of Erodium, E. himalayanum, nob., is also found in the northern portion of the Himalayas, 
as well as in Cashmere; ‘but is not common, as I only met with it once on the barren 
hills above Raengurh. 
The plants of this family are possessed of but little medical properties. Some.of the 
Pelargoniums (which, it may be mentioned, though injured by the rains, generally suc- 
ceed well in India,) are remarkable for their fragrance; and some of the Geraniums 
for their feetid qualities. Several of the species have been employed in medicine, from 
possessing astringent properties ; G. maculatum is so used in North America, and called 
Alum root. 
Geranium Lindleyanum; pilosissimum: caule ramoso adscendente, foliis inferioribus umbellatim 
dispositis longe petiolatis palmato 7-partitis, lobis multipartitis inciso-dentatis, caulinis oppositis, ramis 
axillaribus, pedunculis e dichotomia ramorum ramos superantibus, lateralibus terminalibus dimidio bre- 
vioribus, omnibus apice breve bibracteolatis bifloris, calycibus pilosis mucronatis, petalis integris.— 
Tab. 27. (a.b.) The flowers, half and full blown. (c.) Stamens. (d.) Stamens and Petals removed. 
I have had much pleasure in naming this plant (which I found at Urukta in flower in May) after my 
friend, Professor Lindley, from whom I have received great assistance during the progress of this 
work. 
44, BALSAMINEZ. 
. This order is especially an East-Indian one, only a few species being found in moist 
places in other parts of the world. Dr. Wallich, in his Catalogue, enumerates forty- 
seven species of Impatiens, and though a few of these may be only varieties, others, as 
some of the Nepal species, contain evidently two species under one name: the above 
number will therefore probably remain undiminished. Of these, twenty-two are 
found in the mountains above Silhet and Pundooa, in Nepal, and Kemaon. In 
addition to four of these, I have five other species from the mountains to the northward 
of the Ganges, and along the range as far as Cashmere, whence two more species 
have been brought me; and analogous to what we have seen to be the resem- 
blance in the flora of Kunawur, on the northern face of the Himalayas to that of 
Siberia, so do we find one species closely allied to, if nof identical with, J. parviflora, 
of Siberia. In Mr. Inglis’s collection there is another species, J. Inglisii, nob., from 
Cheeni, also in Kunawur. It is remarkable that of the above forty-seven species, 
nearly the whole of the remainder, or at least twenty-two species, are found in the 
peninsula of India. A singular equality of numbers, seeing that we have hitherto 
found Peninsular and South of India genera confined to the base of the mountains, 
and if found existing on them, generally, only as single species; but here we 
: have 
